6 policemen detained for killing driver and setting truck ablaze

Six mobile policemen
attached to the Ondo State
Police Command have been
arrested for shooting a
tanker driver, simply
identified as Mr. Friday,
dead and setting the truck
ablaze, last Wednesday.
They are currently being
detained at the state police
headquarters, Akure, having
allegedly confessed to
committing the crime.
A Warri-based business
man, Mr Muminogho
Orogboh, the owner of the
brand new trailer truck head
coming from Lagos to
Warri told Vanguard that
the six policemen stopped
his truck at about 2. a.m
close to the Ore toll gate
and after questioning the
driver, allowed him to
continue his journey only for
them to shoot at him in
company of his manager,
Mr. Henshell Gbugbadia who
escaped death by the
whiskers by running into the
bush.
The policemen, it was
gathered, thought the
manager was also dead in
the bush and reversed the
new trailer head toward
Lagos direction and set it
ablaze to blot out any
evidence.
Gbugbadia later called his
Managing Director to brief
him on the development
and the matter was
reported at the Ore toll gate
police station from where
the patrol team on duty that
night were summoned and
disarmed, having denied
knowledge of the incident.
Explaining further,
Muminogho said the DPO in
charge of the Ore Police
station then ordered that
the truck be brought to the
station.
The Police Commissioner
later sent for the suspected
policemen. After orderly
trial, they allegedly
confessed to the crime,
saying they had to burn the
dead driver and the
truckhead to erase any
trace of the incident
because they did not know
that the manager survived.
According to Muminogho,
the Chairman of NUPENG
Rig Move in Warri, Comrade
Ochuko, said they had taken
over the matter to ensure
justice and adequate
compensation to the family
of the deceased driver
including a thorough
investigation and
prosecution of the
suspected mobile
policemen.
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